Blamestorming--Sitting around in a group discussing why a deadline has been missed or a project failed and who to blame.
Seagull Manager--A manager, who flies in, makes a lot of noise, craps over everything, and leaves.
Salmon Day--The experience of spending an entire day swimming upstream only to get screwed and die in the end.
Irritainment--Entertainment and media spectacles that are annoying but you find yourself unable to stop watching them.
Chainsaw Consultant--An outside expert brought in to reduce the employee head count, leaving the brass with clean hands.
Career Limiting Move (CLM)--Used amonf microserfs to describe an ill-advised activity. Trashing your boss while he or she is within earshot is a serious CLM.
Adminisphere--The rarefied organizational layers beginnig just above the rank and file. Decisions that fall from the adminisphere are often profoundly inappropriate or irrelevant to the problems they were designed to solve.
Flight Risk--Used to describe employees who are suspected of planning to leave to company or department soon.
404-Someone who is clueless.
Generica--Features of the American lanscape that are exactly no matter where one is, such as a fast food joint, strips malls, subdivisions. Used as in: "We're so lost in Generica that we don't know what city we are in."
Ohno-Second--The miniscule fraction of time when you realized that you have made a big mistake.
Percussive Maintenance--The fine art of whacking to crap out of an electronic device to get it to start working again.
Umfriend--A sexual relation of dubious standing or a concealed intimate relationship, as in "This is Dan, my...um...friend."
Body Nazis--Hard-core exercise and weightlifting facatics who look down on anyone who deosn't wark out obsessively.
Cube Farms--An office filled with cubicles.
Idea Hamsters-People who always seem to have their idea generators running.
Mouse Potato--Online, wired generation's answer to the couch potato.
Prairie Dogging--When someone yells or drops something loudly in a cub farm and people's heads pop up over the walls to see what's going on.
SITCOMs--What yuppies turn into when they hacve chilren and one of them stops working to stay home with the kids. Stands for "Single Income, Two Children, And Oppressice Mortgage."
Starter Marraige--A short-lived first marraige that ends in divorce with no kids, no property, and no regrets.
Stress Puppy--A person who seems to thrive on being stressed out and whiny.
Swiped Out--An ATM or credit card that has been rendered useless because the magnetic strip is worn away from excessive use.
Alpha Greek--the most knowledgeable, technically proficient person in an office or work group.
G.O.O.D. Job--A "Get Out Of Debt" job. A well-paying job people take in order to pay off debts, one that they will quit as soon as they are solvent again.
Yuppie Food Stamps--The ubiquitous $20 bills spewed out of ATM everywhere. Often used when trying to split a bill after a meal: "we both owe $8 each, but all anybody's got are yuppie food stamps."